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Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with terrorism.
Daniel Moritz-Rabson
We Are All Antifa Now
We Are All Antifa Now
The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
Chris Hedges
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Gad Saads suicidal empathy thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.
Tim Hjersted
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
So if we want real change and a world where future generations of all life, not just human beings, can live in peace with equal rights and justice for all we have to tackle corporate rights, powers, structures and impunity.
Helena Paul
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?
Florent Marcellesi
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
Chris Hedges
Eleven Dead on the High Seas. Trump Is Testing the Waters For Illegal Military Rule in America
Eleven Dead on the High Seas. Trump Is Testing the Waters For Illegal Military Rule in America
The recent massacre in the Caribbean was a step toward making America a police state under President-for-Life Trump.
Mitchell Zimmerman
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
"The left" must get back to what was its original reason for existenceto fight for one-person, one vote democracy in the economic as well as political systems that govern our lives.
Gary Engler
The Stalin Card
The Stalin Card
Every time someone critiques capitalism or suggests alternatives like public ownership, workplace democracy, or real economic self-governance you can count on a predictable response: someone parachutes into the comments with Mao! Stalin! Pol Pot! like its a mic drop.
Tim Hjersted
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
Most American towns before the 1950s were already 15-minute cities. What changed wasnt freedomit was corporations dismantling transit to profit from cars and sprawl.
Tim Hjersted
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
The Green New Deal is often framed as a response to climate change but whether you see it as a crisis or a hoax, the real point is what it delivers here at home: millions of good jobs, lower energy bills, stronger communities, and true energy independence. Its about...
Films For Action
My Favorite Conspiracies Are The Ones That Keep Us Chained
My Favorite Conspiracies Are The Ones That Keep Us Chained
Ill be honest: my favorite conspiracy theories are the ones that sound anti-establishment, rebellious, and free-thinking but in practice, they do the establishments work for them. The ones that get people so convinced theyre resisting power that they never notice how...
Tim Hjersted
Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself
Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself
When rulers isolate people to keep control, they also plant the seeds of their own downfall.
George Cassidy Payne
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
In 2022, I did an Earth Day talk calledWords vs Reality, and it cataloged three dozen or so terms that from a systems perspective would actually require new labels. For example,fossil fuelsmight better be labeledflammable fossils, orconsumermight behuman. After reflecting...
Nate Hagens
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinns Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are packed into one novel.
Tom Murphy
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Oh No. Is Do the Math about to get hijacked for another long series about a Daniel Quinn book, like it was for Ishmael?
Tom Murphy
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Were awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence, which gives us enough power to screw up the world. Its a special curse.Yet, we need not invoke...
Tom Murphy
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Michael Shuman
B’Tselem Admits Israel Is Committing Genocide
B’Tselem Admits Israel Is Committing Genocide
With B'Tselem admitting that Israel's actions in Gaza are genocidal, it's looking increasingly difficult for cowardly western leaders to keep pretending Israel isn't committing genocide
Another Angry Voice
Act While It Still Matters
Act While It Still Matters
One day, when its safe, when theres no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when its too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. Omar El AkkadWhen he posted on October 25, 2023, he also shared video of Gaza, in three weeks of...
Wim Laven
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
The displaced and bereaved in Gaza, and the disappeared in America, are not the only ones experiencing injury. We who witness and cannot stop it also lose confidence in our ability to effectively support decency and justice.
Abba A. Solomon
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
Films For Action
The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.
Chris Hedges
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
The Trump administrations refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
Chris Hedges
Warning Unheeded: A Black Woman’s Reckoning
Warning Unheeded: A Black Woman’s Reckoning
Ignored Warnings, Predictable Consequences, Disastrous Outcomes
InflexionPoint Podcast
Profiting From Genocide
Profiting From Genocide
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
Chris Hedges
Gaza’s Hunger Games
Gaza’s Hunger Games
Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine.
Chris Hedges
War Deja Vu
War Deja Vu
The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.
Chris Hedges
Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.
Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.
Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran Friday has killed not only high-ranking military officials, but also six Iranian scientists, including two prominent nuclear experts. Nearly 80 civilians, including children, were also reported dead and over 300 were injured after Israeli...
Tim Hjersted
Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?
Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?
Lets talk about memory, forgiveness, and the selective outrage that props up the logic of endless war.A commentor told Films For Action on a recent post:
Tim Hjersted
The Rule of Idiots
The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Chris Hedges
How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo
How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo
A persistent fiction continues to capture the imagination of a significant segment of the American public the notion that Donald Trump is, or ever was, an anti-establishment figure. It is a narrative so easily disproven by evidence and logic that one must ask why it...
Tim Hjersted
Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party
Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party
During Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, which many mistook for an act of moral courage, he never once mentioned the atrocities committed by our so-called ally, Israel. No acknowledgment of the white phosphorus dropped on civilian neighborhoods, no mention of the starvation...
Tim Hjersted
Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect
Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect
In our search to understand the immense suffering caused by colonization, racism, and centuries of domination, its natural to feel anger, grief, even guilt. These are human responses to the recognition that something sacred has been desecratedthat entire peoples, cultures...
Tim Hjersted
Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide
Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide
On April 3, Sen. Bernie Sanders forced votes on the floor of the Senate on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, specifically S.J. Res. 33 and 26, each intended to stop the transfer of particular weaponry to Israel.
Elizabeth West
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
This writing began with the premise that humans are not alone in this world, and that our largest problems are rooted in imagining ourselves alone. The original focus was on climate change. During the years of writing, society fell apart in multiple ways. I found myself...
Shodo Spring
From Despair to Possibility: Regeneration as an Antidote to the Great Unraveling
From Despair to Possibility: Regeneration as an Antidote to the Great Unraveling
While a lot of time, energy, and resources will be necessary to stop the erosion of civil rights and defend democracy during a second Trump administration, its essential that we dont neglect the equally important work of building alternative systems and cultures.
Don Hall
Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections
Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections
Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So heres five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:
Tim Hjersted
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Theres a basic question hanging over the future of work that almost no one in power is asking out loud:
Tim Hjersted
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every serious analysis over decades. Study after study has shown that immigrants, both...
Tim Hjersted
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
Our real opponents are the billionaires, the war profiteers, and the politicians in both parties bought by corporate moneynot the few imperfect allies we have in power, and not the ordinary people who vote or think differently from us.
Tim Hjersted
American Concentration Camps
American Concentration Camps
Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps including those in El Salvador it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.
Chris Hedges
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the war on drugs rebranded. And its truejust like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesnt solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes our...
Tim Hjersted
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.
Thom Hartmann
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
The Trump administrations nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming
Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming
When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a partyincluding Israel and the...
Films For Action
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
Chris Hedges
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israels actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over the years, have been disappointing. Bernie's latest mistake was at a "
Tim Hjersted
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
In response to Bernie Sanders and AOC's "Fight Oligarchy" tour, the same chorus of voices rings out: Dont be fooled by these so-called progressives! Theyre just sheepdogging for the Democrats! They say it's just another trap designed to herd our revolutionary energies into...
Tim Hjersted
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Films For Action
The Right's Wokeness Problem
The Right's Wokeness Problem
Paul Grahams recent essay on wokeness is usefulnot because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.
Tim Hjersted
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
Hanna Homestead
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charters prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.
Tim Hjersted
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifestounchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Elon Musks attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
Tim Hjersted
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
Alright folks. Real talk. Weve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. Thats not a bug in the systemits the system working exactly as designed.
Tim Hjersted
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musks email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.
Daniel Hunter
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and reverse the Trump administrations ongoing destruction of our constitutional order.
Alan Minsky
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.
Films For Action